Postmortem: Seattle v Metcalfdropsemburgh

[auroraave]

I would encourage everyone complaining about Darnold to go watch his post game presser from yesterday - dude looks low key very excited - you can see he is absolutely amped up after that game. I love that for him. I am one of those that are rooting for him, managing expectations, while not passing career judgement on him after two games in a new system with new players. I like to let it breathe a little bit and crunch more data before making that judgement. But that's just me.

[Donn Beach]

I would encourage everyone complaining about Darnold to go watch his post game presser from yesterday - dude looks low key very excited - you can see he is absolutely amped up after that game. I love that for him. I am one of those that are rooting for him, managing expectations, while not passing career judgement on him after two games in a new system with new players. I like to let it breathe a little bit and crunch more data before making that judgement. But that's just me.

remember the story of Kupp taking him out to dinner and Darnold wanting to go have chicken strips and fries, JS saying darnold is a "guy". In that sense he is probably the polar opposite of RW as a teammate. I get the feeling he is well liked

[Donn Beach]

I don't know a thing about the guy, looking at darnolds wiki, i was interested what part of the country he was from. He was a basketball player, seemed to be a late start to football. They didn't have much tape of him as a qb when he was requited to USC. Even then the DC wanted him to play linebacker. Maybe he is a late bloomer

During his high school basketball career, Darnold excelled and was named South Coast League Most Valuable Player twice, along with being named to the all-CIF team. Basketball coach Marc Popovich stated Darnold's basketball skills helped translate into football, being the "only guy [I've] ever had who could get a defensive rebound and launch a 70-foot pass on target, pretty much in the same motion, to a guy breaking out in the fastbreak. It was almost Wes Unseld-like." Popovich added that Darnold could have played college basketball in the Pac-12 Conference or the Mountain West Conference "at worst."

On the football team, Darnold played wide receiver and linebacker, though he played quarterback as a sophomore after the starting quarterback was injured in a game against Tesoro High School.

[Donn Beach]

Darnold's play of the game, doesn't look real spectacular but effective, 3rd and nine pass to Barner

"That's the guy that shows up on tape," Macdonald said of the play via ESPN insider Brady Henderson. "He's done it his whole career, and he's doing it for us. And a really heads-up play. AJ understood to uncover and get in the scramble drill. I thought that was a tremendous play. It really changed the tide of the game."

https://x.com/ByJoshCarney/status/19676 ... y-steelers